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| Bioenergy growth poses challenges to policymakers and industry players
The use of bioenergy is poised to climb dramatically in coming years, driven by a series of factors such as spiralling crude oil prices, the need to act against climate change and the necessity to ensure secure and diversified energy supplies. Bioenergy represents an immediate and ready-to-hand answer to such problems. But it raises a set of challenges that must be understood and discussed to allow policymakers and industry players to take decisions towards a sustainable development of bioenergy, because action today will shape the future of the industry for years to come.
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| | GBEP’s work to focus on GHG methodologies and bioenergy field projects
The Global Bioenergy Partnership has identified several areas for its immediate programme of work, including the harmonization of methodologies in conducting greenhouse-gas lifecycle assessments and the collaboration on bioenergy field projects. This programme of work will build on the foundation provided by the GBEP Report, published in November, surveying the current state of bioenergy development in G8 +5 Countries.
Click here for full article | | | Bioenergy policy should favour carbon reductions, GBEP Report reveals
Governments should adopt policies that link greater bioenergy use to reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions in order to stimulate sustainable alternative energy sources. Such a framework would help promote those technologies that can bring the greatest contribution to the battle against climate change rather than merely seek to fulfil bioenergy quotas or meet quantitative targets.
Click here for full article | | | GBEP hosting bioenergy side event at UNFCCC Conference in Bali
The Global Bioenergy Partnership has organised a side event on December 12 at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, to discuss the sustainable development of bioenergy and the potential for climate change mitigation.
The event, to be introduced by GBEP Chairman Corrado Clini, will include an overview of the GBEP’s work, some international perspectives on bioenergy development plus an insight into what the future may hold for biofuel. It will be held in the Wind Room of the Grand Hyatt Bali on Wednesday, December 12, from 1:15pm to 3pm.
Click here for full article | | | Brazil, new GBEP partner, seeks leading role in global biofuel market
Brazil in November became a GBEP Partner, taking the total number of partners to 21 and bringing the country’s three decades of experience in biofuels to the partnership’s programme of work. Brazil’s leading position in the worldwide bioenergy industry was recognised recently by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who made an official trip to an ethanol plant in Sao Paolo to get first-hand look at the Brazilian government’s efforts to combat climate change and deforestation.
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| | Australia’s CSIRO reveals biodiesel’s potential to reduce emissions
A report by Australia’s national science agency analysing how biodiesel could help reduce greenhouse-gas emissions couldn’t have been timed better. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) suggested that the wider introduction of biodiesel in Australia could help address the country’s high greenhouse-gas intensity. The CSIRO published its assessment two days after Kevin Rudd’s landslide victory in Australia’s general election and his immediate pledge to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, setting climate change firmly on the national political agenda.
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| | Bioenergy topics: Improving the estimates of bioenergy’s impact on emissions
Bioenergy offers significant potentials for reducing emissions in electricity, heating and transport. However, there will be large variations between different bioenergy technologies and regions. Accounting for this variety and producing “across the board” estimates of the potential benefits is complex because of differences in the use of by-products, agricultural practices in growing feedstock and the efficiency of processes.
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